Our Team

Mark Watt - Principal

Mark has grown the Spatial Information Consulting activities of CTG Consulting into a highly respected industry leader, servicing clients throughout the Australasian region. As Managing Director of CTG Consulting, Mark is focused on innovation and commercialisation of spatial technologies and brings a Management Consulting and Information Technology Consulting perspective to the traditional Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Automated Mapping / Facilities Management (AM/FM) and associated technologies.

With more than 24 years of experience in the ICT industry Mark demonstrates a broad range of capabilities from technical through sales, marketing, business management and strategic planning. During his career he has applied himself to the strategic application of spatial information technology and processes that deliver management outcomes. He has provided consulting services to many governments, utilities and corporate clients in developing and assessing business plans, compiling strategic plans and managing development projects.

 

David Zuill

David is a Senior Consultant with many years of experience in research, senior technical and managerial roles in state and local government agencies. His roles have included Senior Research Officer, Senior Information Architect, Manager of Planning Information and Manager of Spatial Information Services.

He has managed teams of professional and technical staff; represented his employers on cross-agency information standards and multi-agency ‘whole of government’ planning information integration and data licensing initiatives; and has chaired ‘whole of ‘government’ spatial data purchasing committees.

David has acquired considerable skills instigating and managing strategic data and information management and integration projects across a range of information classes including structured and unstructured data-stores, documents and spatial information. As an Information Architect, David has expert knowledge in the planning, management, implementation and delivery of knowledge and information projects.

 

Paul Nugent

Paul has been in the ICT industry for 25 years since his earliest experiences working as a mainframe Systems Engineer with Fujitsu Australia. Paul developed strong systems engineering skills across a broad range of ICT infrastructure and networks and technologies including expert systems. From 1991-1994 Paul worked for Fujitsu Japan based in the UK as the international Systems Marketing Manager for establishing Fujitsu’s global open systems achieving growth of an entirely new division to achieve $63M per annum in 3 years.

Since returning to Australia Paul has worked primarily as a management consultant specialising in ICT strategic planning, ICT and other technology commercialisation with short stints in senior management roles for ICT companies and as senior executive advisor to support business growth and technology directions.

Paul also spent several years with SGI using his extensive systems engineering background to conduct business analysis of the science and research communities needs. He is an accomplished and architect of high performance computing, mass storage and virtual reality systems and networks to meet those needs.

Over the past 16 years Paul has conducted successful consulting assignments with more than 40 organisations spanning a broad range of industry and government sectors across a wide spectrum of hard and soft technologies.

 

Michael Easton

Michael is a Member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Member of the Australian Institute of Management, former President Queensland Telecommunications Industry Group, former Chair IT&T Industries Forum, former Chairman of Australian Spatial Industries Association (now SIBA).

Michael has experience in value chain design and improvement, information systems planning, software design, systems development and implementation, mobile telecommunications, online service delivery, project management and general management. His professional career has been built on a broad management and technical foundation gained through experience with local and multi-national organisations working with Corporate, State and Local Government clients. He has managed the design and implementation of information systems, and undertaken consulting assignments including supply chain improvement, information systems planning, software evaluation and acquisition, spatial information systems, and business modelling.

 

Mary Ann Pohl

Mary Ann is an information management professional who is committed to the employment of proven methodologies and practices to ensure that the right people will have the right information in the right place at the right time to realise client organisation strategies. Early in her career she held business support, analyst, designer, developer and manager positions.

Since late 2002 Mary Ann has consulted in Australia for both commercial and government organisations. Prior to this she was an independent consultant in the US with clients in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. She has extensive recent experience developing business architectures, using architecture frameworks and management methodologies, and applying the OOBE® Framework approach to Strategy Alignment and Business Engineering.

  • Executive and senior management consulting to energy utilities, financial services, transport, government and medical research.
  • Information management strategy, architecture and practices, data governance and data quality management, core business process design and integration.
  • Extensive collaboration experience with teams of consultants in complementary domains and with client subject matter experts to deliver complex projects.
  • Development and delivery of capability improvement training for Enterprise Architecture, Process Modelling and Project Management.

 

Andrew Reye

Andrew is a Senior Consultant with more than 25 years experience in the IT industry. His breadth of knowledge and expertise includes technical aspects of hardware and software, especially related to control systems for critical operations of rail and energy utility infrastructure. He has managed teams of technical staff and is highly regarded for his business analysis skills and consultation style.

Andrew has a proven capability and capacity for coordinating large scale systems requirements and following through the procurement process from business case development to product selection and contract negotiations. He communicates well with senior executives as well as technical staff and business process managers to understand and present complex issues clearly.

Andrew has developed extensive knowledge of the electricity utility business architecture and supporting process and information modelling to inform the ICT strategic planning across Australia’s largest distribution network.

His responsibilities included:

  • Network operations and network planning and design systems including distribution network management, SCADA, and operational support systems predominantly providing services to central control centres.
  • Planning and design, which includes all systems used for network planning (short, medium and long term) as well as the many design systems for overhead, underground and substation systems, as well as many types of civil engineering.

The resulting IT roadmap was a detailed 15 year plan including new capabilities, platform refreshes and upgrades with costs and business benefits to support the internal business case and the successful AER submission.

 

Leon Tighe

Leon has more than thirty years experience in the information technology industry in Australia and overseas. He has worked for clients in government, semi-government and private industry providing consulting services to electricity generation and distribution utilities, government administration and educational institutions. He has experience in all aspects of the ICT system development lifecycle including process mapping, functional requirements specification, application design, systems architecture, management of system acquisition, management of vendors and management of implementation projects. He is well versed in tendering processes particularly in Queensland and has detailed knowledge of GITC.

Leon is an accredited Project Manager experienced in the application of Agile Project Management techniques for software development combined with the principles from the PMI Project management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

He also has extensive knowledge of the energy trading market and has developing Business Intelligence applications using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services and Integration Services. This experience includes the use of tools to Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) data from various sources, designing dimensions and cubes, deployment of cubes and designing the required MDX queries to meet the application requirements.

Leon prides himself on having deep technical knowledge as well as vast experience in working in and understanding large and small organisations. His clients have found that he adds value by innovative applications of technology to improve business processes, especially tying together work and records through automated workflow and records management.

 

    Professional Development

    CTG Consulting is committed to the ongoing professional development of its consulting team. Our dynamic, action learning based knowledge management environment fosters a culture of knowledge acquisition and sharing. Our consultants undertake regular professional development activities, and have gained accreditation with a variety of professional associations, including the Australian Computer Society, Australian Institute of Management and the Institute of Management Consultants.

    CTG consultants have also been called upon to deliver professional development seminars for a number of the associations.